I think we do ourselves a terrible disservice when we mention Richard Nixon after the antics of Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.
The vile evil nature templet attributed to Richard Nixon was in large part the concoction of the Left, the Washington Post, Katheryn Graham, Woodward, and Bernstein.
Was Nixon problematic? Sure. To say otherwise would be untrue. At the same time, Nixon was a choir boy compared to Clinton and Obama.
Did Nixon hate this nation? Was he a big fan of Communist Russia, Communist China, and the Islamic hoard? Did he do things that helped these entities put us into submission?
Nixon played China off against Russia. He did not advocate the gifting of our technology and national secrets to China, which Clinton and others certainly did. He didn’t have members of the Muslim Brotherhood or anything like them, as his advisers. He didn’t give high level weapons to the PLO, or their equivalent Al Qaeda or the Muslim Brotherhood.
So what are we doing when we bring him up? We’re sticking to the talking points of the Left, who still see Nixon as the great Satan, and Clinton and Obama as making unintentional mistakes that Conservatives blow up beyond their import.
Big mistake in my book.
Nixon was no conservative...his opening of Communist China has resulted in trillions of $ lost to the US economy...and also the EPA was put into law by Nixon’s signing the law
Watergate was minor compared to other Nixon issues
A couple weeks ago, younger kid drove herself to the Nixon Library to check the place out. All is not lost on the next generation and when facts are compared about the various wrongdoings of presidents, there are plenty who see that Clinton was worse and 0bama is worse.
Richard Nixon was certainly hated by the longhaired hippie types who carried commie flags around in 1970.
Nixon was also hated by the liberally biased news media at that time.
Nixon was no Marxist-Leninist, but he signed off on the creation of OSHA and the EPA. Whatever Carter, Clinton and now Obama have done with those agencies is bad, but Nixon did sign off on their creation.
In 1854 Commodore Perry opened up Japan and in 1941 Japan opened up on the United States. Whatever China does in the future, I will always look back on Nixon’s opening the door.
The appeasement of the Soviet Union was morally wrong as Alesksandr Solzhenitsyn stated so eloquently in the mid 70’s.
Obama has certainly used the IRS on conservative people, but in Nixon’s time it was used on a conservative, too. Then retired Air Force Chief of Staff, General Curtis Lemay, was audited in the Nixon era and Lemay thinks he was targeted for political purposes. Lemay ran for vice-president with third party presidential candidate George Wallace in 1968.
How many times have we heard conservatives speak of the “Fairness Doctrine” threat from Clinton or Obama???
Well Richard Nixon’s FCC used fairness doctrine rulings against his enemies. NBC News was hit on a pension documentary, but won a partial victory in the appeals court.
But conservative radio preacher Dr. Carl McIntire was not so lucky. The Nixon FCC took his radio station off the air in response to liberal complaints about a lack of fairness in his programming.
McIntire received a letter of apology from Charles Colson, who was Nixon’s White House counsel.
McIntire was found to be on the “enemies list” with all the lefties by the media.
McIntire’s crime was to hold mass rallies (100-thousand plus people on more than one occasion) demanding a military victory in the Vietnam War, contrary to Nixon’s “peace treaty” policies with the communists.
Moderate Republicans do not like or support conservatives and Nixon was no exception. When talking to his liaison to conservatives, Patrick Buchanan, he would say “What do they want”?
My distaste for Mr. Nixon is not a Leftist talking point, it is a Conservative talking point.